JURIST
JULY 28, 2021
This case originated in the trial court when the defendant Vince Lewis filed a petition, under a newly enacted law that took effect in January 2019, requesting counsel to challenge his murder conviction under that same law. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.
At the Lectern
JUNE 29, 2023
Resentencing prima facie case. Reyes , one of many cases concerning possible resentencing under Senate Bill 1437 (more about today’s Reyes decision later [ update : here ]), the court agreed to take on yet another SB 1437 case, People v. Criminal case grant-and-holds. 22 challenge. COVID insurance.
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At the Lectern
OCTOBER 14, 2022
5th 1169 concerning 2021’s Assembly Bill 333 (see here ), but the opinion declined to resolve a split in Court of Appeal authority whether one part of the new law — Penal Code section 1109 , which requires an enhancement charge to be tried only after a jury finds the defendant guilty of the underlying offense — is retroactive.
The Crime Report
JULY 13, 2022
In our culturally and politically divided America, plagued by “failures to communicate,” by alt-right violent threats to law and order, and by a withering Democratic Republic, the real life series of events that we have all been experiencing seem like some kind of fictional drama made for surrealist viewing.
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